Improvement in flower-pots



CHARLES L. STEELE, CF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

.Letters Patent No. 107,558, lated September-20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOWER-POTS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Pa'tent and making peri: ofthe same.

Know all men by these presents that I, CHARLES L. STEELmof Boston, inthe county of Suifolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new anduseful' Improvement in Flower-Pots, of which the following descriptionwith accompanying drawing is an accurate specification.

The drawing is a vertical section of the device as adapted to a hangingbasket.

The nature of the invention consists in placing the flower-,pot over adetached pau of water, and so supporting the pot and the water-pan thatthe bottomof the. flower-pot may be above the surface of water in thepan, and inpassing capillary threads through the drainage-hole of theflower-pot, and spreading them about within the pot at the bottom of theearth, while theother end dips into the water.

In the drawing- Standard A, brackets F and G, and rim E form the hangingbasket.

Upon standard A is placed the water-pan B, and rim E supports the{lower-pot C. The bottom of the flower-pot must be above the level ofthe water in pan B, and through a hole in the bottom of pot C is passeda bundle of vcapillary threads, D, such as lamp wicking, which aredistributed about among the earth in the pot C, and descend through saidhole into' the water in Water-pan B.

Upon watering the plant as usual upon the-top of the earth, the waterwill descend into the pan B, which thus thoroughly drains theflower-pot, and afterward, so long as-there is anywater inpan .B, it is`By this device a healthy andi nearly uniform sup Y ply of water ispresented directly to the roots of the plants, the necessity for usinglarge and deep flowerpots half. filled with pot-sherds is avoided. theplants never -sulTer from imperfect drainage, or from havingv theirroots soaking in the dampearth of the'bottom Aot' the flower-pot, andthe hanging basket may be made ot' ornamental wood-Work, with glassflower-pot and water-pan, and` be made more tasteful, cleanly, andelegant than at present. y

If desired to use the pot and pan wit-hout the hanging basket, take adat saucer for the water-pan B, and place init a perforatedblock ortile, through which the capillary threads may descend to the bottom ofthe water-pan, and support the lowerpotC upon this block, so that thebottom of the pot may be above the water-level. v

I claim as my invention- In a {lower-pot, C, the bottom-of which ispermauently adjusted above the level of the water in waterpau B, thearrangement of capillary threads D, passing through the hole in thebot-tom of pot C and dipf ping into the waterin pau B, for the purposeof con-- stantly and regularly supplying water to the require- ,mentsofthe roots of plants in said pot, substantially as described.

Witnesses: CHARLES L. STEELE.'

THos. WM. CLARKE, ASA LYON.

